Chapter 71: Foundation for Godhood!
The Thunderclap Nether Vine contained a very diluted thunder god bloodline.
After Lin Rong absorbed this diluted bloodline, his strength didn't undergo earth-shattering changes.
However, the divine substance within this diluted divine bloodline imbued Lin Rong's physical body with a trace of extremely insignificant divinity.
Don't underestimate this trace of divinity. Whether it's inheriting an existing divine position or creating a new one in the future, this divinity can provide Lin Rong with immense help.
Furthermore, with his physical body already possessing a trace of divinity.
The insurmountable chasm between mortal and god has already been broken.
As this trace of divinity is nurtured and grows, Lin Rong might possess a god-level physique even before becoming a god.
Moreover, the physical body nourishes the soul, and the bloodline nourishes the Martial Soul.
As the trace of divinity within his physical body continues to be nurtured and grow, through subtle influence and nourishment, Lin Rong's own soul and Martial Soul will gradually develop divinity.
At that time, Lin Rong will possess a god-level physique, a god-level soul, and a god-level Martial Soul before becoming a god.
Moreover, this kind of god-level Martial Soul cannot be compared to the two god-level Martial Souls, the Six-winged Angel and the Sea God.
These two god-level Martial Souls, apart from the ten levels of Soul Power bestowed by the gods and their extremely high Martial Soul quality, are essentially still within the scope of mortal Martial Souls.
For example, Qian Renxue's Martial Soul is the Six-winged Angel.
Whether it's Qian Renxue before becoming a god or after becoming a god, her Six-winged Angel Martial Soul can be called a god-level Martial Soul.
They are both god-level Martial Souls, but how can the latter's power be comparable to the former's?
And a god-level Martial Soul nurtured by divine substance can be on par with the latter's Six-winged Angel.
Lin Rong carefully sensed the situation within his body and thought:
"I can't get carried away. Nurturing divinity is not something that can be accomplished overnight."
"I can feel that the trace of divinity born within my body is constantly absorbing the power of heaven and earth to strengthen itself."
"But this progress is still too slow. It seems I still need some external help."
"Coincidentally, I still have so many rare herbs collected from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. I'll take a little bit out every day, convert it into vitality using the Life Dragon Soul, and provide it to the divinity for absorption to speed up its growth."
"However, this matter needs to be done slowly, no need to rush. The matters at hand are the most important."
After absorbing the Spirit Bone from the Thunderclap Nether Vine, Lin Rong's Soul Power increased from the peak of level forty-two to level forty-four.
At the same time, this Spirit Bone did not disappoint Lin Rong, granting him a very powerful burst output spirit ability—Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment:
The attack pattern of this spirit ability can also change according to Lin Rong's will, serving as both a single-target attack spirit ability and an area-of-effect attack spirit ability.
Lin Rong's fourth spirit ability, Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm, and the Spirit Bone ability, Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment, originated from the same source.
Therefore, the spirit abilities Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm and Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment complement each other.
Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm can absorb the power of Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment to reinforce the barrier, making it even harder to break.
And when Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment is released within Dragon's Roar Thunder Realm, it can activate the second stage of this spirit ability, gathering a large amount of thunder power to condense a thunder dragon manifestation.
The thunder dragon manifestation has no intelligence and requires control.
Lin Rong can either choose to control it himself or hand over the thunder dragon manifestation to the Nine Bend Vine Dragon for control.
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After finishing everything in Thunderclap Canyon, Lin Rong set off back to his residence.
On the way back, he encountered many teachers and students from advanced Spirit Master academies heading towards Heaven Dou City.
Inside the carriage.
Lin Rong looked at the scenery outside the window and thought:
"I am nine years old, and Tang San is just over nine and a half."
"In the original work, Tang San was fourteen and a half when he participated in the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament."
"The tournament is held every five years, so it is indeed time for this session to begin."
"However, the average skill level of the contestants in this session seems to be quite poor, far inferior to the next session five years later."
The original work did not describe this session of the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament in much detail.
Lin Rong only knew that the champion was Spirit Hall, and Liu Erlong's Blue Tyrant Academy defeated the second team of Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters in the preliminaries.
From this, one can infer the poor overall strength of the contestants in this session.
In the next session, Blue Tyrant Academy couldn't even produce a Soul Ancestor.
It's unlikely they could do so in this session either, yet they still managed to defeat the second team of Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.
As a member of Heaven Dou's nobility, Lin Rong felt ashamed.
Heaven Dou's hereditary nobles paid considerable attention to the Soul Power cultivation of their direct descendants.
But for non-hereditary nobles, it was a mixed bag.
In past tournaments, the second team of Heaven Dou Royal Academy had, without exception, selected only the offspring of non-hereditary nobles as teammates.
Their desire to participate was merely to use the names of the competing team members for prestige, adding a rich splash of color to their life resumes.
As for the first team, it could only be said that the previous teaching committees had done their best to select members based on strength.
Unfortunately, very few offspring of hereditary nobles were willing to participate in the competition; they generally chose to graduate directly after breaking through level thirty-five.
After all, the essence of the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament was a platform for the continent's major powers to recruit outstanding Spirit Masters.
Hereditary nobles were the recruiters, not the recruited.
Furthermore, with the Spirit Hall's seeded team present, they felt there was no hope of winning the championship and thus were naturally unwilling to participate.
Because of the arrogance of hereditary nobles, they were unwilling to be the foil to others' brilliance.
In the original work.
If it weren't for Yu Tianheng, the direct descendant disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, setting an example, and Dugu Yan's support for Yu Tianheng.
Yu Feng, Ao Siluo, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Ye Lingling, those five individuals might not have participated in the tournament five years later.
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Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.
Teaching Committee.
Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin sat together, looking at the student list on the table with worried expressions.
"How can such a large academy not find even one decent student?"
"With so many students, not a single Soul Ancestor at level forty, what are we going to do for this year's tournament!"
"What else can we do? Get eliminated in the first round of the finals!"
The three committee members exchanged glances and sighed in unison.
"There's no hope for this year, but there's some hope for the next."
"With Yu Tianheng, the direct successor of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the granddaughter of that esteemed individual, we'll have at least two Soul Ancestors guaranteed."
"Let's hope that in the next tournament, those hereditary nobles will consider the empire's honor and send more outstanding juniors to sign up."
After speaking, the three of them began to tidy up the scattered student lists on the table. On one of them, the characters "Tang San" were clearly written.
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